That was a factor in our thinking and my suggested timing/city, but as you know such an event is more than just space in a conference room :)
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:03 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ben, > > Lynn Bender had offered a space the day before Distributed Data Summit in > September (http://distributeddatasummit.com/) since we are both platinum > sponsors. I thought he and Nate had talked about that being a good place > for NGCC since many of us will be in town already. > > Nate, now that I've spoken for you, you can clarify, :D > > Patrick > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:25 PM Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > > > The year has gotten away from us a little bit, but now is as good a time > as > > any to put out a general call for interest in an NGCC this year. > > > > Last year Gary and Eric did an awesome job organizing it in San Antonio. > > This year it might be a good idea to do it in another city? > > > > We at Instaclustr are happy to sponsor/organize/run it, but ultimately > this > > is a community event and we only want to do it if there is a strong > desire > > to attend from the community and it meets the wider needs. > > > > Here are a few thoughts we have had in no particular order: > > > > - I was thinking it might be worth doing it in SF/Bay Area around the > > dates of distributed data day (14th of September) as I know a number > of > > folks will be in town for it. > > - Typically NGCC has focused on being a single day, single track > > conference with scheduled sessions and an unconference set of ad-hoc > > talks > > at the end. It may make sense to change this up given the pending > freeze > > (maybe make this more like a commit/review fest)? Or keep it in the > same > > format but focus on the 4.0 work at hand. > > - Any community members who want to get involved again in the more > > organizational side of it (Gary, Eric)? > > - Any other sponsors (doesn't have to be monetary, can be space, > > resource etc) who want to get involved? > > > > If folks are generally happy with the end approach we'll post details as > > soon as possible (given its July right now)! > > > > Ben > > > > > > -- > > Ben Bromhead > > CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> > > +1 650 284 9692 <(650)%20284-9692> > > Reliability at Scale > > Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer > > > -- Ben Bromhead CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> +1 650 284 9692 Reliability at Scale Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer
